She was not far from her own home, and as she came into the farmyard, a
cock on the roof cried loudly:
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Our golden lady has come home, too."
MOTHER FROST--II
When the stepmother saw the girl with her golden dress, she was kind to
her. Then the maiden told how the gold had fallen upon her.
The mother could hardly wait to have her own child try her luck in the
same way.
This time she made the idle daughter go to the spring and spin.
The lazy girl did not spin fast enough to make her fingers bleed.
So she pricked her finger with a thorn until a few drops of blood
stained the spindle.
At once she let it drop into the water, and sprang in after it herself.
The ugly girl found herself in a beautiful field, just as her sister
had.
She walked along the same path until she came to the baker's oven.
She heard the loaves cry, "Pull us out! pull us out, or we shall burn!"
[Illustration]
But the lazy girl said to the brown loaves, "I will not. I do not want
to soil my hands in your dirty oven."
Then she walked on until she came to the apple tree.
"Shake me! shake me!" it cried, "for my apples are quite ripe."
"I will not," said the girl, "for some of your apples might fall on my
head."
As she spoke, she walked lazily on.
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